Comments on: How we got sucked into live-tweeting at conferences

By: Career Enlightenment

Career Enlightenment — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:01:05 +0000

[…] …sessions, to actively listen and give the speaker your full attention. As Carolyn Thomas, a.k.a. The Ethical Nag marketing blogger, says of live-tweeting, ‘it is simply impossible to both pay attention to a speaker while at the ….[…]

By: Alec Writes Digitally

Alec Writes Digitally — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 02:58:33 +0000

[…] this article written by Carolyn Thomas, she describes the issues that may occur because of live tweeting. She […]

By: Plant Science Today

Plant Science Today — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:39:36 +0000

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By: Carolyn Thomas

Carolyn Thomas — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 20:19:06 +0000

In reply to Debbe McCall. Thanks for sharing your perspective, Debbe. If every live-Tweeter did only what you plan to do (using @reply at the beginning of every live-tweet at every event), it would free the rest of us from being swamped with many, many annoying junk-tweets. So annoying that I regularly take MRade's advice (above) to unfollow them during "conference season"...

By: Debbe McCall

Debbe McCall — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 20:09:50 +0000

I’m torn. I understand making a presentation to the tops of heads is disconnected. On the other hand, I would still be taking furious notes either on a laptop or shorthand to capture new information and credit the speaker.

I am lucky to be able to attend high level conferences and scientific presentations as a patient and tweet, not only as notes for myself, but for other patients who follow me for the latest research.

Thank you! for the @reply hint. I will use that going forward so others aren’t flooded with tweets.

By: MRade

MRade — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:29:51 +0000

THANK YOU for this, Carolyn. Finally somebody brave enough to announce publicly and eloquently that the emperor has no clothes. I’ve become more and more distracted/annoyed at conferences/scientific meetings with this explosion of live-Tweeting. It’s no less obnoxious than movie-goers texting throughout a film. And even worse when I’m not attending an event while my tweetstream gets clogged with 2-3 days of its incomprehensible incoming “updates” and blurred Instagrams of slides. Partial solution: temporarily unfollow every one of them. Those who are thus addicted will not stop live-tweeting, however. They simply don’t get it.